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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—” “Sir?” “—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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"Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to"
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"[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right"
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"See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin"
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"He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."
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"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
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"Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."
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"You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them."
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"As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons."
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"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think."
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"Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along."
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"There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em."
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"Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too."
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"Scout, I�m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you�re gettin� more like a girl every day!” With that, I had no option but to join them."
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"Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him."
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"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep."
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"People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them."
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"I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing."
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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
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"I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference."
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"You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live."
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"Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives."
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"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."
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"I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason."
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"Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own."
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"Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean."
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"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."
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"Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."
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"I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to."
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"Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."
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